Why Tasmanian Honey Company honey is different?

"Our extracting and packing temperature is maintained below 45C, ensuring that the flavour and health benefits of our honey remain uncompromised.
We have perfected the art of creating a fine, soft candied honey that is easy to drizzle, and has wonderful mouth feel. Candied honey is your guarantee that the product has not been diluted with syrup or over heated.

We manage all of our own beehives. This enables us to ensure that our bees only collect nectar from areas that are free of unpleasant agricultural and industrial activities.

We have developed a comprehensive Quality Management System, and are HACCP certified. Our honey contains no additives.

It is wild honey, sourced from a pristine environment and packaged with minimal handling."

Leatherwood Honey

In keeping with our philosophical commitment to bringing one of the natures most unique gifts to our customers in its uncompromised state, we have adopted a special low-temperature preparation technique. In carefully managing the extraction of the honey from the combs and its cleaning we are able to preserve both the floral essences and the innate vitality of our honey resulting in an aromatic and naturally organic food.

Because we use such low temperatures in the production we do not inhibit the honeys natural tendency to crystalise, so to make the final product easy to use we encourage the honey to set with an ultra-fine crystal structure. This imparts to its a buttery and spreadable texture at room temperature. Also easy enough to spoon in and mix in whatever beverage you wish, from a ‘hot toddy’ to a honey lemon tea. Other commercial brands of honey use high temperatures to delay the crystallising process, but this heat destroys the delicate flora essences, changes the flavour and generally compromises the other qualities and potential benefits of honey.

Our Leatherwood is naturally organic by virtue of the fact of where it is produced. Consider for a moment the following images of this place: Ancient rainforests located on the global at latitude 42 degrees south is shared only by southernmost New Zealand and Tierra del Fuego. At this latitude, the circumpolar winds whip up a constant westerly wind known as the Roaring Forties. These winds bring with them heavy moisture laden air drawn off the Great Southern Ocean only to deposit much of it as rain on the western side of Tasmania at the same time watering the rainforest where the Leatherwood trees grow and produce its golden harvest. We think of the Leatherwood honey as the ‘distillate’ of this magic place.